Wraith (StarCraft)

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"Wraith awaiting launch orders!"

- Wraith pilot^(src)

Wraith
Unit
Race	Terran
Role	Harassment
Armament	25 mm burst lasers Gemini AA missiles
Properties
Maximum energy	200 (init. 50)
Size	Large
Sight	7
Production
Minerals	150
Gas	100
Supply	2
Build time	60
Produced from	Starport
Hotkey	W
Movement
Speed	6.67
Protection
Hit points	120
Combat
Ground attack	8
Air attack	20
Cooldown	30 (ground) 22 (air)
Attack range	5

The Wraith is a terran air unit in StarCraft. It is voiced by Glenn Stafford.

Overview

The Wraith is best against large-sized air targets such as battlecruisers and guardians.

With the Apollo Reactor a Wraith can remain cloaked for over 3.5 minutes.

The ground attack and cloak make Wraiths useful for harassing the workers of poorly defended expansions. They're also useful for picking out lone units scouting before the opposition can react. Wraiths, however, have a weak ground attack, are fairly fragile against most units, and easily damaged. While this is compensated with the cloaking ability, Wraiths are not very massive due to their cost.

In the campaign, they become available during the mission "Revolution" in Episode I and in "Ruins of Tarsonis" in Episode V.

Abilities

Cloaking Field

The Wraith can cloak. It can still attack while cloaked.

Usage
Hotkey C Cost 25 (+1 per second)

Acquisition
Purchased from Control tower Hotkey C Cost 150 150 100

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Upgrades

Ship Weapons

• +1 bonus to attack per level for Wraith ground attack and Valkyrie attack.
• +2 bonus to attack per level for Wraith air attack.
• +3 bonus to attack per level for battlecruiser attack.

Acquisition
Purchased from Armory Hotkey S Level 1 Cost 100 100 267 Level 2 Cost 150 150 300 Required Science facility Level 3 Cost 200 200 333 Required Science facility

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Ship Plating

• +1 armor to Wraith, dropship, battlecruiser, science vessel, Valkyrie per level.

Acquisition
Purchased from Armory Hotkey H Level 1 Cost 150 150 267 Level 2 Cost 225 225 300 Required Science facility Level 3 Cost 300 300 333 Required Science facility

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Apollo Reactor

• Increases the Wraith's energy by 50.
• Increases starting energy from 50 to 62.5.

Acquisition
Purchased from Control tower Hotkey A Cost 200 200 166

Wraith Heroes

• Tom Kazansky

Quotations

See: StarCraft Wraith Quotations

Development

StarCraft alpha Phoenix

During development, the Wraith was known as the Phoenix. In the StarCraft alpha the craft had a different appearance In the StarCraft beta, while the original name was retained, the craft had an appearance identical to its end successor. Both versions of this craft had Gemini missiles. Its unit profile bore resemblance to the marine.

The name has since been adopted by a StarCraft II protoss unit.

Images

Unit profile from alpha

References

Terran Units and Structures of StarCraft/Brood War v • e

Infantry SCV Marine Firebat Medic (BW) Ghost Ground vehicles Vulture Goliath Siege tank Air units Wraith Dropship Valkyrie (BW) Science vessel Battlecruiser Basic buildings Command center ComSat station Nuclear silo Supply depot Engineering bay Barracks Refinery Missile turret Academy Bunker Advanced buildings Factory Machine shop Armory Starport Control tower Science facility Physics lab Covert ops Other Nuclear missile Spider mine Scrapped units Cargo ship Merc biker Mercenary gunship Raider Spysat Scrapped buildings Cantina Dry docks Power station Repair bay Star base